Resources

Links and resources on leadership, personal development, entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship, curated by Gregg Vanourek (@gvanourek)

• Alignment: How to Align Your Organization for Peak Performance. Alignment is essential to creating and sustaining the conditions for peak performance.
• *Alignment Scorecard. With this Alignment Scorecard, you can assess your organization’s level of alignment and make plans for improving it.
• A-to-Z Guide to Good Leadership Practices. Everything you want to know about good leadership, all in one place, with links to relevant articles.
• Book Club Discussion Guide for Triple Crown Leadership. Helpful for team-building, leadership development, and team alignment.
• Company Culture Resources. Examples from top organizations with culture codes, culture-building best practices, and related videos.
• *Crafting Your Life & Work online course to help you find happiness, fulfillment, and success doing what you love.
• Entrepreneurship Resources. Links to web sites, blogs, apps, and more re. startups and social enterprises, including info on ideation, business modeling, lean startups, financing, etc.
• *Goal-Setting Template to help you set goals you can achieve based on best practices (beyond SMART goals)
• *Goals Guide: Best Practices in Setting and Pursuing Goals, a 30-page guide to walk you through this important process
• Happiness Series. Best articles on happiness by Gregg Vanourek. 
• Interviewing for Heart. Most people focus their interview questions on “head” matters like knowledge, skills, and experience. Triple crown leaders also probe for “heart” matters like character, emotional intelligence, and culture. Here are tips on how.
• Leadership Bookshelf. Recommended books on leadership as well as personal development, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and ethics.
• *Leadership Derailers Assessment. Identify what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness–and what to do about it.

Leadership Derailers Assessment

Take this assessment to identify what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness. It will help you develop self-awareness and identify ways to improve your leadership.

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• Passion Probe to help you find the things that consume you with palpable emotion over time
• Personal Development Resources. Curated list of the best books, web sites, and podcasts related to personal development, personal growth, self leadership, and life design.
• *Personal Values Exercise. Identify your personal values: what you believe and stand for, and your convictions about what is most important in life.

Personal Values Exercise

Complete this exercise to identify your personal values. It will help you develop self-awareness, including clarity about what’s most important to you in life and work, and serve as a safe harbor for you to return to when things are tough.

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• *Quality of Life Assessment. Discover your strongest areas and the areas that need work.
• Servant Leadership Series. The best articles on servant leadership by Gregg Vanourek and Bob Vanourek.
• Social Entrepreneurship Resources. List of the best books, organizations, and funders related to social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.
• *Strengths Search tool (NEW) to help you identify your core strengths and figure out ways to integrate them more into your life and work.

Strengths Search

We all have core strengths–the things in which we most excel. Take this self-assessment to determine your core strengths so you can integrate them more into your life and work.

Find Your Strengths

• Sweden Startups and Social Enterprise Resources. Web sites & resources on startups and social enterprises in Sweden and the Nordics, including startups, incubators, funders, etc.
• *Traps Test (Common Traps of Living). Determine what’s getting in the way of your happiness, quality of life, and fulfillment.

Take the Traps Test

We all fall into traps in life. Often we’re not even aware of them. Check out these common traps of living to see what’s inhibiting your quality of life and fulfillment.

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